Automation Load

The usage chart helps you understand which automation creates load and whether execution speed may have reached the tariff limit. It shows step starts, not a list of individual runs. Continue to use Processes to inspect a specific run, its path, and its errors.

Open The Usage Chart

Open the automation list. In the required row, open the automation menu and select Usage chart. The same command is available from the Other actions menu in the automation editor.

On a wide screen, you can open the details faster by selecting the small chart and maximum speed in the 24-hour load column. This column is hidden on a phone, so use the row menu there.

In the usage window, switch the period between the last 24 hours and 7 days.

Read The Main Metrics

The summary contains four values:

• Maximum speed is the highest number of this automation's steps that started within one second;
• Steps started is the number of steps that began during the selected period;
• Share of project load is this automation's share of all steps started in the project;
• Tariff-delayed is the number of steps that had to wait briefly because of the project's shared speed limit.

One process usually passes through several steps, so the number of started steps can be significantly higher than the number of processes.

Compare The Chart With The Limit

On the peak speed chart, each point is the maximum number of steps that started within one second inside the corresponding interval. The 24-hour period uses shorter intervals, while the 7-day period uses larger ones.

If the tariff has a limit, the chart shows it as a dashed line. The limit is shared by all automations in the project; it is not allocated separately to each automation. An automation can therefore peak below the line and still have some steps wait when other automations are active during the same second. Use the Tariff-delayed metric to check this.

Account For A Partial Period

If per-automation detail only started collecting recently, a message above the summary shows the collection start date. The chart and totals then cover only the collected part of the period. The message disappears after a full 24-hour or 7-day period has accumulated.

No starts means that the automation did not start any steps in the available part of the selected period. Usage unavailable means that the data could not be loaded; try opening it again later.